Emmeline
#922 for girls in 2025, 284 births
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 370 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,152since 1888
Emmeline over time
Rank among girls' names. Emmeline has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #922 | 284 |
| 2024 | #938 | 281 |
| 2023 | #949 | 276 |
| 2022 | #981 | 270 |
| 2021 | #884 | 307 |
| 2020 | #864 | 311 |
| 2019 | #774 | 359 |
| 2018 | #786 | 347 |
| 2017 | #753 | 370 |
| 2016 | #788 | 361 |
| 2015 | #810 | 347 |
| 2014 | #898 | 302 |
| 2013 | #1,015 | 246 |
| 2012 | #1,080 | 230 |
| 2011 | #1,418 | 160 |
| 2010 | #1,569 | 140 |
| 2009 | #1,742 | 125 |
| 2008 | #2,137 | 94 |
| 2007 | #2,930 | 61 |
| 2006 | #2,940 | 58 |
| 2005 | #3,081 | 51 |
| 2004 | #3,265 | 46 |
| 2003 | #2,346 | 71 |
| 2002 | #2,228 | 74 |
| 2001 | #2,600 | 58 |
| 2000 | #2,632 | 56 |
| 1999 | #2,737 | 50 |
| 1998 | #2,929 | 44 |
| 1997 | #3,626 | 31 |
| 1996 | #3,429 | 33 |
| 1995 | #3,585 | 30 |
| 1994 | #3,372 | 33 |
| 1993 | #3,052 | 38 |
| 1992 | #2,869 | 41 |
| 1991 | #4,059 | 25 |
| 1990 | #3,623 | 29 |
| 1989 | #3,253 | 32 |
| 1988 | #3,805 | 24 |
| 1987 | #3,624 | 24 |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 |
| 1985 | #5,348 | 13 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 |
| 1973 | #5,191 | 10 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
| 1966 | — | |
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| 1963 | — | |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 |
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| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 |
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| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 |
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| 1931 | #3,226 | 8 |
| 1930 | — | |
| 1929 | #3,394 | 8 |
| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 |
| 1927 | #3,561 | 8 |
| 1926 | #4,306 | 6 |
| 1925 | #4,028 | 7 |
| 1924 | #2,308 | 16 |
| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 |
| 1922 | #2,780 | 12 |
| 1921 | #1,867 | 22 |
| 1920 | #3,598 | 8 |
| 1919 | #2,640 | 12 |
| 1918 | #2,519 | 13 |
| 1917 | #3,092 | 9 |
| 1916 | #2,498 | 12 |
| 1915 | #1,883 | 17 |
| 1914 | #2,876 | 7 |
| 1913 | #1,883 | 11 |
| 1912 | #2,979 | 5 |
| 1911 | #2,463 | 5 |
| 1910 | — | |
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| 1907 | — | |
| 1906 | #1,951 | 5 |
| 1905 | #1,931 | 5 |
| 1904 | #1,251 | 9 |
| 1903 | — | |
| 1902 | — | |
| 1901 | #1,679 | 5 |
| 1900 | #1,561 | 7 |
| 1899 | — | |
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| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | #1,353 | 6 |
| 1893 | — | |
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| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | #1,276 | 5 |
| 1887 | — | |
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| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Emmeline! It came in at #1,276, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1888–1893, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Emmeline is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#243 · 1 in 950
- Massachusetts#296 · 1 in 1,341
- Connecticut#394 · 1 in 1,761
- Nebraska#434 · 1 in 1,618
- Colorado#457 · 1 in 1,964
Best ever in a state: #170 in District of Columbia, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #243 | 19 | 1 in 950 |
| Massachusetts | #296 | 19 | 1 in 1,341 |
| Connecticut | #394 | 7 | 1 in 1,761 |
| Nebraska | #434 | 5 | 1 in 1,618 |
| Colorado | #457 | 12 | 1 in 1,964 |
| Oregon | #501 | 7 | 1 in 2,172 |
| Minnesota | #522 | 10 | 1 in 2,454 |
| Wisconsin | #558 | 9 | 1 in 2,589 |
| Missouri | #603 | 9 | 1 in 3,014 |
| Maryland | #617 | 8 | 1 in 3,005 |
| Washington | #653 | 10 | 1 in 3,214 |
| South Carolina | #660 | 6 | 1 in 2,976 |
| Ohio | #678 | 14 | 1 in 3,719 |
| North Carolina | #682 | 13 | 1 in 3,485 |
| Tennessee | #694 | 9 | 1 in 3,449 |
| California | #705 | 51 | 1 in 3,994 |
| Kentucky | #721 | 5 | 1 in 3,652 |
| Illinois | #726 | 15 | 1 in 3,842 |
| New York | #752 | 21 | 1 in 4,278 |
| Virginia | #772 | 9 | 1 in 4,126 |
| Indiana | #821 | 7 | 1 in 4,328 |
| Michigan | #827 | 9 | 1 in 4,674 |
| Georgia | #912 | 10 | 1 in 4,805 |
| Florida | #923 | 16 | 1 in 5,419 |
| New Jersey | #940 | 7 | 1 in 5,225 |
| Arizona | #1,085 | 5 | 1 in 6,189 |
| Texas | #1,294 | 19 | 1 in 8,805 |
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| Wyoming | — | — | — |
Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Emmeline
- 16 spots since 2024 (#938 → #922)
- 58 spots since 2020 (#864 → #922)
- 112 spots since 2015 (#810 → #922)
- Biggest jump: 117 spots in 2014 (#1,015 → #898)
- Biggest drop: 97 spots in 2022 (#884 → #981)
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 2017 at #753 (370 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2014–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,666 girls born in 2017 were named Emmeline (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,659 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 46.5% of all girls named Emmeline (2,862) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #1,276 (1888) | #1,276 |
| 1890s | 6 | #1,353 (1894) | #1,353 |
| 1900s | 31 | #1,251 (1904) | #1,675 |
| 1910s | 91 | #1,883 (1915) | #2,537 |
| 1920s | 99 | #1,867 (1921) | #3,441 |
| 1930s | 8 | #3,226 (1931) | #3,226 |
| 1940s | 7 | #3,559 (1941) | #3,559 |
| 1950s | 6 | #5,208 (1955) | #5,208 |
| 1960s | 18 | #5,860 (1962) | #6,213 |
| 1970s | 68 | #4,854 (1975) | #6,319 |
| 1980s | 174 | #3,253 (1989) | #4,745 |
| 1990s | 354 | #2,737 (1999) | #3,328 |
| 2000s | 694 | #1,742 (2009) | #2,590 |
| 2010s | 2,862 | #753 (2017) | #989 |
| 2020s | 1,729 | #864 (2020) | #923 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Emmeline in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 4,909 of them was named Emmeline, which outranked 95.8% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).